Radical adaptation, justice, and American Indian nations

Environmental Justice

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 207-212

  Krakoff, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; ETHNIC GROUP; HOMELESSNESS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RACIAL DISPARITY; RACIAL IDENTITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TERRITORIALITY;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84555178358     PISSN: 19394071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/env.2010.0034     Document Type: Article

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1. The Fourth International Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports were issued in 2007. Using that as a dividing line, a search of the Westlaw "law reviews and journals" database, last run on Sept. 22, 2010, revealed that 168 articles with the terms "climate change" in the title were published before 2007, and 541 after 2007.
2. A Westlaw search of the "law reviews and journals" database, last run on Sept. 22, 2010, revealed that twenty-eight articles with the terms "climate" and "adaptation" in the title have been published since 2007, whereas only one was published before 2007.
3. See Sarah Krakoff, American Indian Tribes, Climate Change and Ethics for a Warming World; American Indian Tribes, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World, 85 Denver L. Rev. 865 (2008);
4. Jonathan Hanna, Native Communities And Climate Change: Protecting Tribal Resources As Part Of National Climate Policy 11-12, 19, 26 (Natural Res. Law Ctr., Univ. of Colo. Law Sch., 2007), .
5. E-mail communication from Margaret Hiza Redsteer, July 20, 2010 (on file with author)
6. See Pierre Schlag, Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (A Report on the State of the Art, 97 Georgetown L. J. 803 (2009).
7. See 184 Alaska Native Villages Affected by Flooding and Erosion, GAO Report 09-551 ( June 2009)
8. Sarah Krakoff, Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice in Justice and Natural Resources, Kathryn Mutz, et al., eds., 161, 162 (Island Press 2002).
9. See Robert Anderson, et al., American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, Ch. 3 (2d. ed., Thomson/West 2010) (providing an overview of various failed federal policies towards American Indians).
10. Jonathan Lear, Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (Harvard U. Press 2006)
11. 184 Alaska Native Villages Affected by Flooding and Erosion
12. See Alaska Native Villages: Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened by Flooding and Erosion, GAO Report 09-551 ( June 2009)
13. See Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil, 663 F.Supp.2d 863 (N.D.CA. 2009) (dismissing the suit on Article III standing and political question grounds)
14. See Susan Joy Hassol, Impacts of a Warming Arctic, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment 10-11 (Cambridge U. Press 2004) (summarizing key findings).
15. see also Swinomish Tribe, Office of Planning and Community Development, Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Impact Assessment Technical Report (2009), ;
16. Tulalip Nation, Climate Change Impacts on Tribal Resources,
17. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.: Southwest 129, available at .
18. See also Richard Seager et al., Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America, 316 Sci. 1181 (2007).
19. See Robert J. Conley, The Cherokee Nation 167 (U. of New Mexico Press, 2005).
20. For a detailed and comprehensive history of this period, see William G. McLoughlin, After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty 1839-1880 59-120 (U. of North Carolina Press, 1993);
21. See also Grant Foreman, The Five Civilized Tribes 360-76 (U. of Oklahoma Press, 1934) (describing Cherokee efforts to establish educational institutions and other civil society organizations).
22. 30 U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831)
23. 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832)
24. See Cherokee Nation, 30 U.S. at 17
25. See Worcester, 31 U.S. at 561
26. See Grant Foreman, Indian Removal 234-36 (U. of Oklahoma Press, 1989) (describing Cherokee reactions to the Cherokee Nation case as well as their subsequent hope that Congress would stave off removal).
27. See Morris L. Wardell, The Cherokee Nation 8-10 (U. of Oklahoma Press, 1938).
28. See Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears 116-40 (Viking, 2007).
29. See, e.g., Russell Thornton, The Cherokees: A Population History 87-89 (U. Nebraska Press, 1990) (noting Cherokee population recovery starting after 1852, but also comparing the removed Cherokee numbers to the more stable population growth of the eastern Cherokee).
30. See Andrew Denson, Demanding the Cherokee Nation 49-50 (U. of Nebraska Press 2004).
31. See Laws of the Cherokee Nation Passed During the Years 1839-1867 (Scholarly Resources, Inc. 1973: 1868).
32. See Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law 45-54, 64- 69 (LexisNexis, 2005 ed.).
33. See Cherokee Heritage Center Website, (last visited April 29, 2011), listing several such events, including a Trail of Tears Art Show.